June 2 is an important date on the NFL calendar. Under the NFL’s salary cap rules, bonus proration from remaining or future contract years is delayed until the following league year when a player is released, retires or is traded after June 1.
The date used to carry greater significance in the NFL. It marked the beginning of the final wave of free agency. Teams would primarily release players with excessive contracts or declining performance because of the change in salary cap implications.
In some years, more than 20 players were released after June 1. Some of the big-name players to hit
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